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| rijelkentaurus Jan 10, 2007 4:09 PM EDT |
Gratis or not, Opera is still proprietary software. I'm not particularly fond of it, but I think if the community could get ahold of the code it could become a great browser. Of course, if the community could get ahold of the code, then XP could become a great OS...well, maybe not. |
| tuxchick Jan 10, 2007 4:37 PM EDT |
" if the community could get ahold of the code, then XP could become a great OS" Well, yes it could. First rip out the bits that suck. That leaves maybe a hundred lines of code. Quite manageable, and a good solid foundation to build on. |
| tuxtom Jan 10, 2007 4:48 PM EDT |
Yawn... |
| tuxchick Jan 10, 2007 5:16 PM EDT |
**burp** |
| dek Jan 10, 2007 5:35 PM EDT |
Oh yuck!! WHAT DID YOU JUST EAT???!!! (Me waves my hand -- fruitlessly I might add -- to rid myself of the fumes) ;-) |
| tuxchick Jan 10, 2007 5:46 PM EDT |
teehee, er, sorry, that wasn't really a burp, but an emission from farther down the pipeline. Giggle. |
| azerthoth Jan 10, 2007 6:09 PM EDT |
We found the cheese sandwich!!!! |
| swbrown Jan 10, 2007 7:47 PM EDT |
> but I think if the community could get ahold of the code it could become a great browser. Problem is, you'd have a 5 year spin-up period for the community to learn and adapt to working on that codebase as happened with Netscape's. It's likely much more efficient to just improve FireFox. |
| tuxchick Jan 10, 2007 8:39 PM EDT |
I'll pass on the sandwich, thank you anyway. Get it? Get it? haw. :) |
| azerthoth Jan 10, 2007 8:57 PM EDT |
TC you stinker, what possessed you to cut loose with that? |
| Teron Jan 11, 2007 3:58 AM EDT |
"if the community could get ahold of the code it could become a great browser." No need for any becoming-stuff it's great already. It's great, but not libre. |
| jezuch Jan 11, 2007 4:23 PM EDT |
Quoting:Problem is, you'd have a 5 year spin-up period for the community to learn and adapt to working on that codebase as happened with Netscape's. You mean a complete rewrite? :) |
| jimf Jan 11, 2007 4:28 PM EDT |
> You mean a complete rewrite? :) Some think Mozilla really needs that ;-) |
| cr Jan 11, 2007 6:35 PM EDT |
> Well, yes it could. First rip out the bits that suck. That leaves maybe a hundred lines of code. Quite manageable, and a good solid foundation to build on. Yeah, but we're a little beyond CP/M now, don't you think? Start with a clean build of FreeDOS instead of ripping it all the way down to Tim Paterson's QDOS clone of Kildall's work; it has subdirectories. |
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